Guest Professional Faculty - Kellar Radio Talent Institute

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Guest Professional Faculty
Kellar Radio Talent Institute
Dave Aiken
Assistant Program & Music Director,
WKRR-‐FM (Rock92)
Greensboro, NC Dave Aiken is Assistant Program and Music Director fo WKRR-‐
FM (Rock92). Known to listeners as “Weather Dave,” he also hosts his own afternoon show on Rock92 and is a member of the “Two Guys Named Chris” morning show. Aiken has been with Dick Broadcasting Company (DBC) since 2003 and has served in many facets in both Creative Services and as Promotions Director.
Don Anthony
Founder & President, Talentmasters;
Publisher, The Morning Mouth Magazine;
Creator & Host, Morning Show Boot Camp and Talk Show Boot Camp
Atlanta, GA
Don Anthony is the founder and president of Talentmasters, pubisher of The Morning Mouth Magazine and Jockline, and is the creator and host of Morning Show Boot Camp and Talk Show Boot Camp. As the titles suggest, for over 20 years Don’s life has been consumed by the Prior to his work with DBC, Dave was a staff business of personality radio. Each August for meteorologist for WFMY-‐TV, Greensboro, and the last 20 years, Don brings together hundreds a freelance meterologist at WXII-‐TV, Winston-‐
of the top personalities from throughout the U.S. Salem. He has also done work for the Hazardous and abroad for his highly acclaimed Morning Weather Preparedness Institute, providing Show Boot Camp. It has become radio’s largest corporations, sports organizations, and public gathering of its type. Through his conferences, emergency response teams with assistance his monthly and daily publications for talent in developing hazardous weather planning and his daily talent search operation, he’s and staff training throughout the Carolinas developed a unique and well-‐honed insight into and Virginia. He has also been a member and the innerworkings and elements of successful broadcast seal holder of the National Weather radio shows.
Association.
Dave is a North Carolina native and a graduate of the Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University. He holds a double major Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with concentrations in National Security Policy and Radio and Television Broadcasting. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Keaira Bray
Promotions Manager,
B93.7 & Magic 98.9
Entercom Radio
Greenville-‐
Spartanburg, SC
Keaira went to school to become a helicopter pilot and has her commercial license. You would think ϐ
reports, but instead she loves working in radio Guest Professional Faculty
promotions, which she has been doing for four years. She now holds the position of Promotions Manager for Entercom Radio, which includes B93.7 and Magic 98.9 in Greenville-‐Spartanburg, SC. She loves people and anything that includes the word fun. She says, “I love my job!”
Arroe Collins
Production Director,
Clear Channel Radio
Charlotte, NC
Who and what is Arroe Collins... ϐǡ
teacher second. Thirty years ago it was his vision to help shape a broadcasting future by playing the multiple roles of each panel that creates the four walls of a radio station. He then discovered the art of it, and the opportunity to make a difference not only in a listener’s life, but also those who’ve invested their money inside 30-‐ and 60-‐second commercials. Arroe says, “too many people get into radio to talk, why should I listen if what you’re saying has nothing to do with me?” That very thought dominates his vision in commercial production. Every Commercial should ask, “what’s in it for the listener?” Arroe doesn’t expect everyone to line up and suddenly support his style of creative ambition, yet, he feels a production room has the strength to empower more listeners on a daily basis than the most brilliantly delivered one-‐on-‐one break.
“In radio we are taught to communicate over the intro of songs, rarely does someone step up and show us why we create commercials in a way that is more effective by putting the ϐǤǦ
commercials are delivered. Emotion sells. Radio works if you allow it to do what it was meant to accomplish. We aren’t a billboard; we are theatre of the mind. Creativity runs rampant within the studio walls and true broadcasters locate it. Once there, his or her life changes because they spend every day thereafter wanting to share an energy source many never see.”
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pleasure in creating seven-‐second breaks that have more impact than a 20-‐minute conversation about comedy or politics. Arroe is also a published author, up for his third-‐
degree black belt in the martial arts, was the ϐǦ
Pilot, hosted three separate shows in different markets for Clear Channel and has displayed his artwork in three galleries. What motiviates him is one simple thought, “winning is a choice,” and he loves watching others feel success. Kerby Confer
Owner, Forever Broadcasting
Baltimore, MD
Kerby’s interest in radio was kindled at the age of 13 when he earned the Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge. At 15 he “earned” ϐ
hometown of Williamsport, PA by promising to help in the building of a new radio station in exchange for any part time job when the station went on the air. Gradually he moved into larger markets as an on-‐air personality, including Harrisburg, PA and Syracuse, NY. In his twenties he worked on-‐air at WCAO radio and WBAL TV Baltimore and WDCA Guest Professional Faculty
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integrated TV dance show in America, which has been satirized in the movie and Broadway productions of “Hairspray.” His frequent guests included major stars of the era, including The Beatles, Supremes, Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and others. From 1964-‐1984 Kirby was Baltimore’s highest rated local radio/TV personality. He eventually moved into management at WYRE Annapolis, MD and in 1975 purchased ϐǡǡ
PA. In 1978 he founded KSSN Little Rock, AK and from there he formed Keymarket Communications in the 1980s, with stations in markets that included Harrisburg, PA; Columbia, SC; Jackson, MS, and then stations in Houston, St. Louis, Detroit, and Los Angeles. During this era, he created the “Froggy” brand for his country music stations.
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stint at WRFX he held the positions of on-‐air, program director and general manager, then he went on to WEDJ as general manager until he joined WEND in 1995, where he is on-‐air and program director of 106.5 The End. Jack is a staple, and some would say, legend, in Charlotte radio.
Jack and his wife, Carla, have been married for 34 years and have two children, Adam and Alexandra.
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On-‐air Talent,
106.5 WEND FM
Clear Channel
Charlotte

WEND 106.5 The End’s afternoon drive radio In the late 1990s Keymarket sold its 35 show, known as the stations for $133 million and, through a merger “Budweiser Lounge.” with Sinclair, became the 10th largest radio ͳͲͳ
broadcaster in the U.S. Over the years, he has ǡǡ
owned an interest in and operated over 200 ͳͲͷǤͳǡ
stations and is still active in 70 properties. In ǡ
2003 Kerby was inducted into the Pennsylvania syndicated radio host with over 65 markets Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
on the weekends. You can hear him all the way from Seattle, WA to Tampa, FL. Here’s a little bit Jack Daniel
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Program Director & On-‐
air Talent,
“I was born and raised in Atlanta, GA,” says 106.5 The End FM
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Clear Channel
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Charlotte, NC
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and recently married to a woman who is WAY Jack’s 40-‐year career began too beautiful to be with me!”
in eastern North Carolina. He attended East Carolina ͳʹǡ
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in Charlotte radio in Since then, he has worked in South Carolina and New York and has been in Charlotte for the 1976. In Charlotte, he has Ǥǯ
programmed and worked on-‐air at WPEG, Big Guest Professional Faculty
of the radio station keep him involved in the industry to some degree as well. He is the lead singer and guitar player in a rock band, and he loves to play golf, even though he says he isn’t very good at it. He currently is working out at a gym that caters to mixed martial arts (a.k.a. cage ϐȌǤǲǤǤǤǯ
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J/K!”
Jason Goodman
Program Director, WKZL & WKRR ROCK92
Greensboro/Winston-‐
Salem, NC
Jason has sat in the Program Director’s ͳͲ͹Ǥͷ
and held down the afternoon drive shift since 2005. During that ǡ
ratings ever as a CHR, often number one in the target demo and almost always top three in most key demos. In 2010, he was also given the responsibility to program Rock92.
Dave Goren
National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association & Hall of Fame Executive Director
, NC
Dave Goren was born and raised in Taunton, MA. He began his journalism career as editor of his eighth-‐grade newspaper, then moved on to cover high school sports for the Taunton Daily Gazette as a high school junior.
Dave graduated from Syracuse Univeristy’s Newhouse School of Communications, where he majored in Broadcast Journalism. While at Syracuse, he got involved at student radio station WAER, doing everything from football and basketball play-‐by-‐play to daily newscasts and sportscasts.
Following graduation, Dave continued to write sports for the Gazette and branched out into commercial radio in Brockton, MA, doing high school football and basketball play-‐by-‐play, as well as scoreboard and magazine shows. In 1984, Dave started his TV career as an associate sports producer at WJAR-‐TV in Providence, RI, ǡ
Director and Music Director at The Point WPTE where he eventually worked his way on-‐air as a in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA, while also pulling sports reporter. an on-‐air shift and handling the imaging of the Four years later, Dave moved south as sports station. Jason worked as an air personality at reporter/producer at WXII-‐TV in Winston-‐
three other very respected heritage top forty Salem. In 2001, he was named Sports Director ǡȀͻʹǡȀͻͶǡ
and became Monday-‐through-‐Friday 6 and 11 ȀͳͲͶǡǤ
o’clock anchor a year later. In all, Dave worked nominated for Radio Music Awards for Music Director/Assistant Program Director of the year 20 years at WXII, covering everything from the NCAA Basketball Championship to the Super in 2003 and 2004. Jason Graduated from Old Dominion University with a Bachelor of Science Bowl to Dale Earnhardt’s death at Daytona. As part of an industry wide decline in the degree.
importance of local TV sports, Dave was laid off in December 2008. Two months later, he was ϐʹͲͲͺ
Sportscaster of the Year in a peer vote. He came to Salisbury in May 2009 to recieve his award, was encouraged to apply for NSSA’s Executive Director job and was hired by the NSSA Board of Directors to start September 1, 2009. Away from ϐǡǦ
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his 11th year playing ice hockey for the Bears of the Piedmont Hockey Assocation and coaches Max’s Little League team, The Reds.
Brian Hall
Director of News/Talk Programming,
Clear Channel
Asheville, NC
Brian discovered his love of radio back in the big hair 80’s at NC State University where he got his start at WKNC, the student run radio station. While in the triangle area Brian worked for several radio stations out of college and covered ACC sports for ABC, WFAN, NCNN and other networks. Brian was the play-‐by-‐play voice for the NC State Women’s Basketball team under legendary coach Kay Yow from 1986-‐
1989 and worked as the voice of Duke Women’s basketball in the 1994 season. Brian was with Premiere Radio Networks from 1994-‐2002, and has worked at Clear Channel Asheville as Program Director, Sales Manager, Sports host and High School Football play-‐by-‐play. He lives in Black Mountain with his wife Mary Elizabeth, two dogs, and a cat.
Henry Hinton
President, Inner Banks Media
Greenville, NC
Henry is President of Inner Banks Media, which owns four properties in eastern NC, and host of “Talk of the Town,” a daily radio and television show on WTIB 94.3FM and Cable 7. His 37-‐year career began in the campus radio station and spans radio and TV in Norfolk, Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Greenville. Henry is also guest host and panelist for statewide political talk show, NC Spin, that airs on 13 TV and 20 radio stations in NC.
He founded New East Communications in 1989, which has been the parent company of three radio stations and other related companies. Henry has been honored by state broadcasters with the 2001 Earl Gluck Distinguished Service Award, and in 2000 by the ECU Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award, and named Greenville’s Business Leader of the year by the Chamber in 2002.
Henry is currently Secretary of the East Carolina University Foundation Board and on the ECU School of Fine Arts, Music and Communications Advancement and Advisory Council.
He is formerly President of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, former Chair of the Greenville Pitt County Chamber of Commerce, and formerly on the board of the NC Center for Public Policy Research. He also was the color sports announcer on the Tar Heels Sports Network broadcasting UNC-‐Chapel Hill football and basketball.
Henry is married to Debbie and their son, Hank, Jonathan is a business partner in Inner Banks Media, their Mauney
daughter, Courtney, is a nurse in Charleston SC.
Director of Interactive Media,
Scott Lauer
Greater Media Play-‐by-‐Play Radio
Announcer,
Charlotte, NC
NBA Charlotte Bobcats Jonathan got his Charlotte, NC
start in radio in 1993 at the student-‐run radio station, WASU, at Scott Lauer just Appalachian State University. He quickly became completed his third Production Director and then served two years season as the Bobcats as Station Manager. Under his management, the radio play-‐by-‐play station won the National Association of College announcer, having spent the previous three seasons as host of the team’s Broadcasters “Station of the Year Award” in 1997.
radio broadcasts. Prior to his appointment as the Radio Voice of the Bobcats, Lauer’s work Before graduating with a Bachelor of Science in as studio host saw him handle a 30-‐minute Communication and a minor in Graphic Design, pregame show, along with halftime and Jonathan worked part-‐time as a Marketing postgame wrap-‐up programs.
Producer and News Writer/Associate Producer Preceding his work as the Bobcats radio studio at WBTV Television in Charlotte, NC, and was a weekend On-‐Air Personality at WKBC-‐FM in host, Scott served as Play-‐by-‐Play Announcer North Wilkesboro, NC.
for the Triple-‐A Indianapolis Indians of the International League. In addition, he has In 1997, he joined WLNK-‐FM as a weekend served as Play-‐by-‐Play Announcer for several On-‐Air Personality and Programming Assistant other minor league baseball and basketball ǯϐǤ
teams and has also delivered commentary for 2000, Jonathan had transitioned into full-‐time the World Series of Poker, held in Las Vegas, web application development for both WLNK-‐
NV., on WorldSeriesofPoker.com. His sports FM and WBT-‐AM and was a member of the broadcasting experience also includes KWOX technical advisory panel for LMiV, a short-‐lived in Woodward, OK., and the SportsFan Radio joint internet venture with Jefferson-‐Pilot Network in Las Vegas, where he served as Communications and four other broadcast anchor, host and producer.
companies. In 2006, Jonathan was promoted to Scott and his wife, Alison, were married in May Interactive Director and is charged with shaping the interactive strategy for what is now known 2008.
as Greater Media Charlotte.
Matt Mittan
organizations. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Western North Carolina Red ǡϐ
with since 1989.
Matt Mittan is Western North Carolina’s premier talk radio host, based out of Asheville. He has called western North Carolina home since 1996, working with numerous print and radio media outlets around the region and across the country. Mick Mixon
Talk Radio Host, “Take A Stand,”
WWNC/Clear Channel
Asheville, NC
Besides his daily show out of Asheville, he has done work with stations including WBT in Charlotte, Rush Radio WRDU in Raleigh, as well as stations from Wilmington, NC to Savannah, GA. Matt served as the Executive Editor of a chain of weekly papers in NC and SC as well as published his own newspaper out of Black Mountain, NC. He also serves as a political commentator for BBC Radio in London and has been featured in publications such as USA Today and Talkers Magazine. His background, however, is that of an Air Force Medic. Matt served for eight years in the U.S. Armed Forces and served overseas during Gulf War I.
Matt takes a “front porch” approach to his radio program, chatting about anything from news Ǥϐ
foremost, he likes to have fun while still offering thought provoking discussion. The topics are as broad and unpredictable as the people who call America home. Matt rebels against entrenched political camps and refers to himself as a die-‐
hard independent.
Aside from his on air resume’, Matt is also an active member of the community, volunteering his time and services to numerous local civic Play-‐by-‐Play Announcer, NFL Carolina Panthers
Charlotte, NC
Forest Orion (Mick) Mixon was born on a cold, rainy Wednesday in October 1958, a Gerber baby cute as a toddler, but then started to get progressively worse looking into adulthood. Mick graduated from UNC-‐Chapel Hill in May of 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism/Radio, Television, Motion Pictures.
Mick is now in his 30th year as a sports announcer. He is the former radio and TV “Voice of the Maine Guides” Triple A Baseball Club; spent 16 years as Color Analyst/Production Manager for the Tar Heels Sports Network and did TV games for Fox Sports South. He taught two classes in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications for six years and was the consistent recipient of the department’s highest professor approval ratings.
Mick was named North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year in both 1999 and 2004 and is the Ǧϐ
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Mick became the Play-‐by-‐Play Announcer for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in 2005.
He is married to Kristin Lyn Tucker, and he plays drums in two working bands, “Franklin Street” and “Mick and the Ultras.” He also likes to jog, lift weights, write, mess around with cars, do yard work and play golf.
Chase Murphy
Program Director & On Air Talent WFBC-‐FM/B93.7 & WSPA-‐FM/Magic 98.9,
Entercom Radio
Greenville-‐
Spartanburg, SC
Chase is Operations Manager, Program Director and Brand Manager for both WFBC B93.7 and WSPA Magic 98.9 in the Greenville-‐Spartanburg, SC market, and is the Midday Air Talent on B93.7.
Chase has worked on air and programmed in San Angelo, TX.; Little Rock, AR.; Charleston, SC; Boston, MA.; and Modesto, CA. His awards include Radio and Records CHR/POP Station of the Year; nominated for RAB PD of the Year; Gavin Hot AC Small Market Station of the Year; Gavin HOT AC Small Market PD/OM of the Year; Boston Globe “Best Radio Promotion”; and US Weekly “Top 50 Hottest Jocks.”
After graduating from the Columbia School ǡϐ
morning drive show at the age of 17 on WNEA ǡ
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Atlanta. He later became the Program Director and Morning Drive Host at WBTR/WCBB in ǡ
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Atlanta. In 1979 he was hired to do mornings at WSGA Savannah then was promoted to Midday and News Director at WSB-‐FM Atlanta, then to Afternoon Drive at
WWSH Philadelphia.
Jack did mornings at WWYD Atlanta, and by the time he was at WCCO Minneapolis, he had the
reputation as a morning show turnaround Ǥǡ
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Salem-‐High Point market since 1992 and has led the show to consistent Arbitron wins over the last 19 years. Jack is known for his strong opinions, quick wit, great storytelling abilities, funny impersonations, and his charity, Murphy’s Kids, which has raised and donated over 1 million dollars to deserving families in the Triad.
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AllAccess, Izine and the Modesto Bee. Chase was featured in the movie “O,” and he is a FOX Kids Murphy in the Club host and has hosted the Ronald McDonald Morning’s Katie House Telethon.
O’Brien is a proud Appalachian State Murphy in the Morning
graduate. She got her start 107.5 WKZL
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Greensboro-‐ Winston 104.7, (CBS) in Charlotte. Salem-‐High Point
Over the course of a three month internship, Katie Jack Murphy began worked an incredible 4,500 his distinguished career hours. After graduation, in radio at the age of she was hired by KISS and 15 as the full-‐time
night jock at WGAA department. After in Cedartown, GA. relocation to Winston Salem in September of Guest Professional Faculty
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92. (Dick Broadcasting, Inc) That is where Jack met her and thought she would be great on the show. He was right. She became a member of the show in January of 2006 and is known for having the best laugh in the Triad. Katie is the lone “female” voice of the show and has won numerous People’s Choice awards for best female Co-‐host in the market. In addition to being Co-‐host, Katie is Associate Executive ǡǡ
every moment of the show, produces a “daily” sheet, documents and names the morning show replays, and much much more.
Murphy in the Morning’s Jared Pike got his start in 2004 while in college at UNC-‐Greensboro where he and a friend ϐ
sports talk show on UNCG’s WUAG (The Jared and Cameron Show). In 2006 he became an intern for Murphy in the Morning and made his mark with man on the street stunts, prank calls and bit ideas, He was ϐǦȀȀ
Writer for the show in 2007. In addition, Jared also assists in scheduling the show, setting up interviews and is the resident sports expert. Some notable interviews have included President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Coach K, and his all-‐time favorite interview, Coach Roy Williams (Loves Carolina). Jared is the proud father of a baby girl named Ava and is expecting his second child with his wife, Heather, in October 2011.
Jay Nachlis
Program Director & Air Talent, 96Rock & WBBB, Curtis Media
Raleigh, NC
After growing up in the great city of San Francisco, Jay Nachlis did what any smart 17 year old would do – he moved to one of the coldest, snowiest cities in America. After graduating in 3 ½ years from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1993 (“Why was I in such a hurry to leave??”), Nachlis worked his way up from overnights at Hot AC WYYY (Y94FM) in Syracuse to APD/Afternoon Drive, while overseeing both Y94FM and the launch of CHR WWHT (Hot 107.9). In 1996, Nachlis made the move back home as MD of K101/San Francisco and was later made Interim PD of the heritage Hot AC station, making him a Program Director in a Top 5 market at the ripe age of 24.
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@ 92.9), during the red-‐hot Modern AC years. Possibly the only person to have ever programmed two “Alice” stations, Nachlis took the helm of Classic Hits WLLC (Alice 106.7)/
Detroit from 2000-‐2003. A station perhaps ahead of its time, the quirky-‐imaged, heavy on genre variety template became popular a few years later as the “Jack” format.
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Raleigh, NC for an interview the next morning at WBBB/96Rock. That night he watched in his hotel room as his beloved Syracuse Orangemen won their only basketball championship and his fate was sealed. Nachlis has spent the past 8 years (that’s 56 in “real job” years) as the Guest Professional Faculty
Program Director of the Curtis Media Group owned Mainstream Rock station. Each day at 3pm, he walks into a phone booth and changes into “Foster”, his on-‐air alter ego. 96Rock is currently enjoying the highest ratings in the station’s history.
George Reed
Jay Nachlis lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife, two kids, a dog, and an unnatural love for karaoke. He is also the lead vocalist of Radiowave, the 96Rock DJ
George Reed is co-‐founder and manager of Media Services Group’s Florida ϐϐ
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actively involved in the broadcasting industry since 1972. In 1987, he joined Chapman Associates as a broker/consultant. Mr. Reed’s practice includes station brokerage, valuations, and investment banking.
Kent Pike
Local Sales Manager,
CBS Radio: WSOC, WFNZ, WCBN, WNKS, WPEQ,WBAV, WKQC
Charlotte, NC
A 2002 Electronic Media Graduate from Appalachian State, and Department of Communications Alumni Council Member (2002-‐present.) Kent began his radio broadcasting career in 1995 at WKVS in Lenoir, NC in promotions and as a board operator. In 1998 Kent joined the Appalachian Sports Network as the Studio Engineer until 2002. In 2001 he joined WMMY-‐FM in Jefferson, NC as the General Manager. In 2003 Kent joined CBS Radio in Charlotte, where he is employed today as a Senior Account Executive. Kent
Philadelphia. He resides with his wife, Joanna, and their two daughters in Troutman, NC. Managing Director, Media Services Group, ǡ lorida & Monticello Media, Charlottesville, VA
George has assisted in transitions totaling almost a billion dollars. He has formed and launched two different broadcasting companies and handled the stations’ acquisitions. He owns Monticello Media, a company of six radio stations in Charlottesville, VA, where he developed the management team, negotiated and closed the transaction and launched two new formats. He has served as an expert witness in State and Federal courts concerning station valuations and as a court appointed Receiver.
Mr. Reed received his BBA degree from Mercer University and his MBA from Georgia State University’s Executive MBA program. He is a past President of the National Association of Media Brokers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, and The John Bayliss Broadcast Foundation.
John Reynolds
Operations Manager and Program Director, KISS FM & K104.7 FM
Charlotte, NC
John has come a long way since the time he became fascinated with radio as a nine year old playing songs on his parents stereo and using their tape recorder to record himself talking over intros of songs, micmicking the jocks on the big Top 40 station that inspired him. By age 11 he attended a broadcast school, not exactly typical, but they let him go at his own pace, and by 13 he got ϐ
a “Big Band” show on a local radio station. At 16 he was hired to run the “Casey Kasem AT40 Countdown” on the #1 station in the market, then on to college and working nights on the Top 40 station in the market where he went to school. He was hired away by the competition to work full time and do the midday shift in another market. John has worked at some very ǡͳͲͲ
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Today John is the Operations Manager and Program Director of the CBS owned KISS FM and K104.7 FM in Charlotte.
Doug Rice
President/General Manager, Performance Racing Network
Concord, NC
Doug is the President and General Manager of PRN, and a co-‐
anchor of all the PRN race broadcasts. He can also be heard on-‐air on PRN’s Fast Talk show each Monday night. Doug has been a part of PRN since 1988 when he ϐǤ
Doug’s broadcasting career started at WSTP/
WRDX in Salisbury, NC, where he served as the Program Director, Morning Show Host and Sports Play-‐by-‐Play Announcer. During that time Doug received the UPI National Broadcast Award for Outstanding Sports Coverage in 1982. Doug’s sportscasting career has included doing play-‐by-‐play of college basketball and football. During his career he has worked on numerous broadcast teams including Fox Sports Net and Indy Racing Radio Network. In addition to his on air duties with PRN, Doug is also the co-‐
anchor for the Indy Radio Network broadcast of the Brickyard 400.
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which he claims to not be very good at, and he’s a history nut, especially for the Civil War.
Michael Thompson
Director, Corporate Communications, NBA Charlotte Bobcats
Charlotte, NC
Michael Thompson is now in his fourth season with Bobcats Ƭ
as Director of Corporate Communications. After more than seven seasons with the Hornets in Charlotte, New Orleans and Oklahoma City, Thompson returned to the Carolinas to manage the Bobcats’ corporate public relations efforts, as well as those of the Bobcats Youth Foundation and Time Warner Cable Arena.
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Thompson helped the Hornets through their temporary relocation to Oklahoma City in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, acting as team spokesman on all non-‐basketball issues and as a liaison between local and national media and Hornets ownership/management. Prior to working in the team’s communications department, Thompson served as the Hornets’ community relations assistant for two seasons in Charlotte and director of youth programs for two seasons in New Orleans.
Bruce has been with Dick Broadcasting (DBC) in Greensboro for the past 24 years, 10 of those as the Vice President of Programming for the 14 DBC stations. These stations represent all formats and approaches. He’s worked with all sorts of research, strategic and tactical projects. Bruce’s resume includes 14 years as the General ͻʹͳͲ͹ǦͷǤ
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and broadcast department at the University Thompson began his professional sports career of North Carolina, Greensboro. Bruce is a past in the Continental Basketball Association, where President of the North Carolina Association of he was eventually named director of public Broadcasters and is a current board member. relations for one of its teams.
He is the 2009 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award presented by the Association at ϐ
their annual convention.
Tacoma, WA, Thompson was born in Chicago, but raised in Hong Kong, where he graduated Bruce resides in Greensboro with his wife, Terry, from the Hong Kong International School. He and sons, Mitch and Sam.
and his wife, Tara, reside in Ft. Mill with their daughter, Madeleine.
Leonard Wheeler
President, Wheeler Broadcasting
Bruce Wheeler
Roanoke, VA
Vice President/
General Manager,
Leonard Wheeler began WKZL & WKRR
his broadcasting career Dick Broadcasting
in 1979 in San Diego, Greensboro, NC
CA, working in radio sales while attending Bruce is a 34-‐year San Diego State radio veteran with University. Leonard, a background in the son of pioneer broadcaster, Mel Wheeler, programming, sales soon joined the family business with his parents and management. and brothers. Mel Wheeler, Inc. then began His career began in an expansion into radio and television that Lincoln, NE, followed continues to this day.
by programming stops in Denver, Chicago and Columbus, OH. From 1981 to 1983, Leonard worked at the ǯǡȀǡ
Virginia. At the age of 25, in 1983, Leonard moved to Oklahoma City, OK to manage KLTE-‐
FM. He served as general manager there until the company sold KLTE in 1988.
At that point, Leonard moved over to television sales, and became Vice President of Sales Ǧǡǯϐ
southern IL, while also assisting with the operation of KRCG –TV, the company’s CBS ϐǦǡǤͳͻͻͲǡ
Leonard moved to Jefferson City and became KRCG’S General Manager. Leonard returned to Roanoke in 1992 as ȀǤ
1990’s, he led the company to the successful acquisition of four more stations in the Roanoke/Lynchburg Market. In addition to his role as President of Mel Wheeler, Inc., Leonard serves as General Manager of the six-‐station ȀǣǦȀ
WSLC-‐FM, WXLK-‐FM, WVBE AM/FM and WFIR-‐
AM. In 2005, Leonard was nominated as Market Ȁ
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Leonard has been actively involved with the Virginia Association of Broadcasters and is a current board member. He has worked to promote our industry in his work with the VAB as well as the NAB.
He serves on a number of boards and committees, including the Children’s Miracle Network. Most importantly, Leonard leads the company in its ongoing commitment to serve its local communities. The Wheeler stations received the VAB Public Service award in 2005 for raising over $500,000 for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. At a time of layoffs in the broadcast industry, the Wheeler stations added a full-‐time Community Development Director in 2008 to Ǧϐ
Roanoke/Lynchburg Market.
Leonard lives with his wife, Lisa, and stepdaughters, Lauren and Olivia, in Roanoke, VA.
Dan “Vallie” Hill
Director, Kellar Radio Talent Institute
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Dan “Vallie” Hill is a 40-‐year broadcast veteran and Founder of ȈȈ
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almost all the large broadcast groups in America among its impressive clientele. While the ȈȈ
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worked internationally in Italy, Hungary and Australia.
Known in the industry by his stage name of “Dan Vallie,” Dan has worked in practically every level of broadcasting, beginning as an air talent, then to programming to operations, vice president of a broadcast group, to ownership ϐǡǡ
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franchise which he has since sold.
Dan’s successful career, now in his fourth decade in radio, has been relentlessly innovative as evidenced by a career that has him at the forefront of various formats. In the 1980s, he debuted legendary Top 40 stations, including B-‐97 in New Orleans and B-‐94 in Pittsburgh; he helped pioneer the Hot AC format in the early 1980s (Y-‐98, St. Louis) and the Dance format, Guest Professional Faculty
where as Vice President of Programming, he led Dan is a frequent speaker at various industry the effort to debut Hot105 in Miami. conventions, including the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention (and is ͳͻͻͲǡȈȈ an NAB Radio Award Selection Academy Consulting partnered with the internationally member), the NAB Radio Executive Group respected Gallup Organization, based in Owner Fly-‐In, the former Radio and Records Princeton, NJ, and Lincoln, NE, to form conventions, National Religious Broadcasters Vallie-‐Gallup, which performed research and convention, The Midwest Conclave, The Gallup consulting for stations in various formats. He World Conference, Gospel Music Association developed the idea of “conceptualizing” radio convention and for various broadcasting stations and coined the term “stationality,” plus groups.
created the MorningMasters program for high-‐
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Dan is frequently asked to contribute articles and comments to the leading industry Dan was a leader in the evolvement of publications, including Inside Radio, Radio-‐Info.
the Adult Contemporary format, and ǡǡ ǡ Ǥ
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at the forefront of all variations of the Contemporary format today with Top 40, Adult Hits, and Soft, Mainstream, and Hot AC clients in San Francisco, Providence, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Greenville-‐Spartanburg, Louisville and others.
In 2007, working with Appalachian State University, Dan debuted the inaugural Kellar Radio Talent Institute, a program to teach and prepare college students to enter professional broadcasting and creating a “go to” place for ϐǤ
program debuted with rave reviews from the industry.
Dan is a non-‐traditional and creative thinker who believes creative discoveries are best maximized when they have practical application. ȈȈ
Consulting, Dan was Vice President of ǡ
that merged into American Radio Systems, which sold to CBS.